Description

To make sure all toddlers in your early childhood program are participating, learning, and thriving, you need to master the art of choosing and using effective adaptations. Practical solutions are in CARA's Kit: a guidebook and CD-ROM brimming with step-by-step ideas for adapting environments, activities, and materials for children 18 to 36 months.

A follow-up to the bestselling CARA's Kit for Preschoolers, this real-world guide to successful adaptations is aligned with recommended practices in early childhood special education and early intervention. You'll use this complete kit to

help toddlers make progress toward program standards by creating an environment where all children learn

make daily activities run smoothly by addressing children's everyday challenges

select and use the least intrusive adaptations to help a child participate

With CARA's Kit, you'll have a reader-friendly, full-color quick guide with invaluable tips and suggestions, a clear six-step process for planning and implementing adaptations, and dozens of possible solutions for increasing child participation in activities and routines. You'll also get a multimedia CD-ROM with everything you need to make adaptations work:

a how-to audio presentation in English and Spanish

suggested adaptations for play time, art and sensory experiences, story time, community outings, drop off/pick up, transition between activities, and more

more than 25 PowerPoint slides for preparing a group to use CARA's Kit

an instrument to assess activities/routines, and

printable forms for generating ideas and recording notes on your chosen adaptations and their results.

Great for self-study or professional development group sessions, CARA's Kit is a must for early childhood teams across a wide range of settings. You'll use it year after year to ensure the best possible learning environment for young children with and without special needs.

Reviews

Review: Midwest Book Review, Education Shelf

"From music to visual supports to enhance learning, this is a creative winner."

Review: Young Children (NAEYC)

"Toddler teachers will welcome this process of facilitating the participation of children with special needs in the activities and life of the classroom. This is an approach to teaching that fits comfortably into good teaching practices for toddler caregivers and will benefit all the children in the group."

"Will be a frequently-used and much-appreciated tool . . . CARA's approach provides a way of thinking about, planning for, and evaluating adaptations that will be immediately useful for teachers and families."

Before placing your order from outside the U.S., please email Greg Ditch at gditch@monacoassociates.com with a list of the items you intend to order. Greg will email you with a quote for shipping costs and instructions for completing your order. Thanks!